He also insulted grandmothers as being no longer fertile or vibrant. What the hell? So if someone is not fertile, they are not valuable? And I guess he is not talking about growing food because most of Europe has no trouble doing so.

I think ideally nobody should care about silly things Mr. Bergoglio says of whatever and I think the EU parlement is not the appropriate podium for religious leaders of any sort to preach from. Let him do his thing elsewhere.

A doddering, backward, reactionary Church that lost its looks and sold its “soul” a long time ago, is now warning some not-that-well-defined geographical thing called “Europe” that it’s losing its looks and might be losing its soul? Yeah, I’ll take that warning under advisement, thank you.

This is just another instance of a right-wing hack calling his liberal critics old, ugly, stodgy, bureaucratic, and predictable, solely as a means of avoiding the substance of their criticism. Just another bullshitting tactic he learned from fascists in North and South America.

So much for that “breath of fresh air” and whatever else we routinely call every new Pope. This guy isn’t “cuddlier” than his predecessor, he’s just a little sillier. And a lot less effective as a “leader.”